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Friday, April 15, 2011
Did I happen to mention?
At our bake sale tomorrow: cupcakes from Crumbs in Larchmont, donated by Ron Ginsberg.
Also, Crumbs generously donated 24 bite-sized cupcakes:
Come sample our wares. Lots of homebaked goodness. Tomorrow, starting at 10 AM, Beverly and Gardner, between Fairfax and La Brea.
Check @UraniumMadhouse for any updates.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Uranium Madhouse Bake Sale!!!
We are planning to set up shop at the NE corner of Pan-Pacific Park, which is the SW corner of Beverly and Gardner, between La Brea and Fairfax. Check the @UraniumMadhouse twitter feed for any updates on the location.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
from The Office to Torchwood
Mother of Inventioner and Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist Cris D'Annunzio knows how to hustle. Fresh off of his appearance on The Office, he is about to start shooting an episode of Torchwood. He will play a mob boss who the intrepid Captain Jack Harkness will have to tangle with. Right on Cris! Keep it coming!
Uranium Madhouse show is cast
Jeff Dinnell (Alec)Jeff Dinnell is a transplant from Santa Cruz, California, where he was a fixture of the local stage and television scene. For five years he hosted a live half-hour talk show covering the local arts. Favorite stage roles include DEFENDANT in David Mamet's ROMANCE and TOM in Adam Bock's FIVE FLIGHTS
Steve Robertson (Godfrey)Steve Robertson is from St. Louis, Missouri and a graduate of the theater department at
the University of Missouri in Columbia. Some stage work includes the role of Jerry in
Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story and Vice Principal Panch in 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee. He is thrilled to be working with the talented people of Uranium Madhouse.
John Ruby (Hugh)
John Ruby is from Pewaukee, Wisconsin and is a graduate of Northwestern University. His film credits include You, Me and Dupree, Ricky,and Touch. He has also made appearances on the television shows The Event, Cougar Town, and Perfect Couples. His theater credits include The Sting and Heaven Can Wait. www.johnruby.com
A big Uranium Madhouse welcome to all!
Jeff, Cesar, and John join my longtime student Yolanda Seabourne, who is the sole actor in Charles Mee's The House of Cards, which will play on a double bill with Conversation Storm.
Yolanda SeabourneBy day, Yolanda watches funny home videos from a show you grew up watching. By night, she watches plays and studies acting with Andrew Utter. When actually acting and not watching, Yolanda has appeared in productions of Hay Fever, The Bald Soprano, and The House of Bernarda Alba.
Uranium Madhouse's Fantastic Four will ROCK YOU, this June, at Hollywood's El Centro theater. Brace yourself! RAWRRRR!
Friday, March 04, 2011
Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board #8-- Elena Faro
Elena Faro is a native New Yorker and has been a tax accountant for over twenty years. She has run her own business for the last thirteen years and serves a clientele who work as freelancers in the Arts and film industry. Ms. Faro has a bachelor’s degree in literature and classics from Hunter College of the City University of New York. In her spare time, she is the mother of two beautiful children.Welcome Elena!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
"If' I'm gonna die for a word...
...it's gonna be MY word, and my word is...
POONTANG
...BALDERDASH."
(with apologies to Stanley Kubrick)Uranium Madhouse is having a Balderdash Night benefit! Click the link below for details and information, and please join us!
Balderdash Game Night!
Saturday, Feb 26, 2011
7pm
Friday, February 11, 2011
auditions for Conversation Storm at Uranium Madhouse!
Wall Street Journal Review of Three Pianos
New York Times Review of Three Pianos
Conversation Storm was awarded the Best New Play award at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2007. Our production will be a Los Angeles premiere.
This will be the inaugural production of new LA theater company Uranium Madhouse. It will run for three weekends starting June 9 at the El Centro Theater in Hollywood. Directed by Andrew Utter, MFA, Yale School of Drama, Founder, Mother of Invention Acting School
Project Synopsis: Conversation Storm reunites three friends in a quiet café after a 20-year separation. The friends quickly resume their old custom of parry and riposte in an examination of the question of torture. As they talk, an intricate game evolves, entailing time loops and role-playing. They imagine the unimaginable, save Manhattan, fail Manhattan, conjure atrocities, salvage humanity and try to get a glass of water from an inattentive waiter, all while attempting to answer the question, “Are people fungible?”
3 males, mid-30?s.
Auditions will be held March 5 and 6 at the Cornerstone Theater in downtown LA.
The sides are here.
To submit for the roles, go to http://lacasting.com/ . The roles are Hugh, Godfrey and Alec.
If you are not on LA Casting and would like to submit, please email ron@uraniummadhouse.org.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board Member #7-- Matthew McCray
Matthew McCray is the Founding Artistic Director of Son of Semele Ensemble. A multi-faceted artist in many theatrical disciplines, Matthew enjoys working professionally throughout the year as a producer, director, performer, musical director, composer and teacher of theatre. Originally from Fort Collins, Colorado, he moved to California in 1994 to attend Chapman University. After earning a BFA in Theatre Performance and a minor in Vocal Music from Chapman in 1998, he moved to Los Angeles. He currently resides in Eagle Rock, California.
In 2004, Matthew was featured on the cover of American Theatre Magazine for his work with SOSE. As a director Matthew's work includes both original and published work. Most recently, his 2006 production of Iphigenia (A Rave Fable) received six LA Weekly Award nominations and Matthew received an award for his work as the Video Deisgner. Other directing work includes his own original plays A Few Moments Behind The Mask, Earthlings and Amended which premiered in REDCAT's Studio Festival, as well as Animal Farm, the west coast premiere of Back Story, a workshop production of What The Moon Saw by Stephanie Fleischmann and most recently a workshop production at CalArts of Lear's Wild Rose by Sibyl O’Malley. Matthew is currently collaborating with Center Theatre Group to assist in producing the yearlong festival of work by Suzan-Lori Parks called 365 Days / 365 Plays.
In 1999 Matthew created a theatre program for children in Newport Beach called Musical Theatre Playground (MTP) that produces reduced musicals and Shakespearean plays with child actors (K-6). As the program's sole producer, adaptor and director, Matthew has presented over 30 productions, inspiring countless children to become theatre-goers and theatre-makers. Now in his 8th year of producing and directing for MTP, Matthew's earlier MTP cast members have gone on to specialty high schools for the performing arts to continue their studies in the theatre.
Matthew has appeared on the stage, as well as in film, television and commercials. His credits include the experimental stage of REDCAT as well as nationally-recognized musical theatre organizations REPRISE! and Musical Theatre West. For Son of Semele Ensemble his acting credits include the role of Abraham in The Mysteries, the role of Boxer in the Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award-nominated cast of Animal Farm, Jacob in the NAACP Theatre Award nominated cast of The Tower and Paul Antonelli in Film is Evil: Radio is Good. His television work includes the recurring role of Jasper on the Emmy Award-winning television show Will & Grace, Boston Legal and, most recently, a pilot called The Cure. He has also been seen and heard singing in a Discover Card commercial, and in 2003 he carried a supporting role in the independent film The Commission, starring Martin Sheen, Edward Asner and Martin Landau. Matthew is a member of Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild.
Matthew has authored three plays: Amended which premiered at REDCAT's Studio Festival in 2004; Earthlings which Son of Semele Ensemble premiered in Los Angeles in 2001; and, A Few Moments Behind The Mask which premiered in 1998 at Chapman University. His musical writing includes choral work, musical scores and incidental music for the theatre. His two published choral works for voice and piano are When We Two Parted, published in 1995 with Twin Elm Publishing, and The Paper Reeds By The Brooks, published in 1998 with National Music Publishing. When We Two Parted was performed by The Choral Project in Santa Cruz and San Jose in 2004. In 1996 his musical anthology of Lewis Carroll poetry was added into a theatre work about Alice Liddell, subsequently performed at Chapman University. Additionally, in 1998 he directed a complete evening of his choral compositions, also at Chapman.
Matthew currently teaches Musical Theatre at Chapman University. Other teaching credits include a performance workshop at California Lutheran University, as well as private singing instruction at Pacific School of Music and the Arts. Last year Matthew was asked to join a panel at California Institute of the Arts to speak with students about the formation of ensemble theatre companies.
Welcome Matthew!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
Uranium Madhouse Presents Exerpts from "Conversation Storm" by Rick Burkhardt from Eric Ulbrich on Vimeo.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: William Haugse
I am very proud to announce the newest addition to the Uranium Madhouse Family: Oscar- and Emmy- nominated film editor, actor, director, writer and photographer William Haugse.
William Haugse An Oscar- and Emmy-nominated editor, William Haugse has edited a dozen feature documentaries including "Hoop Dreams," "Sunset Story," "Stevie," and "No Impact Man," and approximately 50 hours of network and cable documentaries. He was nominated for both an Oscar ("Hoop Dreams" Fineline) and an Emmy ("The Last Days of Kennedy and King" Turner), and received the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award among many other prizes. He has worked with Orson Welles and John Cassavetes, among others. His own film, "Breakfast in Bed," starring John Ritter, was "finely crafted" according to the Hollywood Reporter and received festival awards both here and in Europe. As a director of short documentaries he has won several national prizes including Chris Gold awards. Starting during his days as a student at UCLA School of Theater, Film and TV he has acted and directed in live theater, including works by Pinter ("crisp and tantalizing" Los Angeles Times) and Albee. In the 1990s, he was a professor at the USC Department of Cinema for five years. In recent years, another art form has come to the fore; Haugse has had two-man shows and group shows of photography in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Haugse has lived and worked principally in Los Angeles, but also in New York and Chicago, where he engaged not only in filmmaking but also wrote, acted, and directed live theater. He returned to Los Angeles in 1995, where he has been working ever since.
Welcome Bill!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Friday, January 07, 2011
Uranium Madhouse launches Indiegogo campaign
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
madness: it's what's for breakfast
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Watch the whole segment.
A question for you, dear readers: this kind of "insane" unreality, has it been with us since time immemorial, or is it a peculiarly modern affliction? Or do we have more of it now than we used to? This is a central preoccupation of Uranium Madhouse, so I am interested to hear what you think.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Deidre Suber
Deidre Suber The Techie: Deidre Suber's career in theater began at Skyline High school in Oakland, CA with several stagecraft classes, where she honed her skills in set construction, and then went on to become the lighting operator for many of the schools dance concerts. After graduating from high school, she took a brief hiatus from school in general, but theater was in her blood and there's no escaping the hypnotic song of the stage. She answered the call by joining San Francisco State University's Theater Arts department in Fall 2001. Immediately, she was back to working as tech for several main stage productions for the department; set construction and stage crew for A Japanese Christmas Carol directed by Yukihiro Goto, assisting the lighting designer on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar by William "Bill" Peters, stage crew head for Danton's Death and tech for The Ibsen/Strindberg Project, both directed by Mohammed Kowsar. The Stage: But something happened that she did not expect, suddenly the shy techie felt a desire to be on stage performing as part of the show instead of being behind the scenes helping to run it. The world that she once knew had changed and now it brought new and exciting problems and pleasures to sort through. She dove right into a flurry of acting, voice and dialect classes, stage combat, mask work and the Suzuki Actor's training workshop, in and outside of SFSU's theater department. However, Brown Bag, a little black box theater in the Creative Arts building, is where she made her acting debut. First, in The Land of Counterpane as Hildegard the witch by, Robert Louis Stevenson, followed by God in Pieces, an adaptation on the off-Broadway play, The Kathy and Mo Show: Parallel Lives by Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffeny, where she played various characters. Then she starred as several characters in a four person ensemble play, The Age of Dragons, written entirely in verse and directed by River Jackson. The films: Many theater actors have ventured on to have their talents captured on film, and Deidre was right there with the rest. Student films is where she started, first as a hallway collision victim in Bushwhacked, then as a Pirate/Angelic dancer in Stealing a Burrito and Christmas Spirit. She played a supporting role in the independent film Things Done Changed by Joe Alonso and several roles as an extra in the films; Colma: The Musical by Richard Wong (credited), All About Evil by Joshua Grannell (uncredited) and Moneyball by Bennett Miller (uncredited). Currently, she is working as a videographer and editor on several personal and professional video projects. Deidre has just completed two cycles of The Mother of Invention Acting School taught by Andrew Utter.
Welcome Deidre!
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: JB Waterman
JB Waterman has performed in plays and films in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. Most recently he performed Henry in a production of Henry V at Island Stage Left in Washington State. Recently he has performed in "Conquest of the South Pole", "The Bald Soprano", "Tape" (Smith&Martin Co.), and "What the Butler Saw" (Court Theatre, Chicago). Other Chicago Theatre credits include "Angels in America" (Hypocrites), "Three Sisters"(Ground Up), and "La Traviata" (Hypocrites). His Film Credits include "Dickie Smalls: From Shame to Fame" and "Witchunt". In addition to his training with Andrew Utter and Mother of Invention, he has trained at the School at Steppenwolf, Atlantic Theatre Co, at the Yale Summer Drama Program, and has studied Corporeal Mime with Thomas Leabhart. He lives in Los Angeles.
Welcome JB!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Uranium Madhouse Associate Artist: Tyne Marie Gaudielle
Tyne Marie Gaudielle was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She attended San Diego State University and majored in Theatre Performance. She studied acting abroad in Oxford, England, with the British American Drama Academy. From a young age, Tyne had a vivacious interest for creating and performing. Her family eagerly dismissed the idea of acting, though. Finally in high school, she was allowed to participate in her first play, Stepping Out. It was love! Past theatre work includes Mom, The Importance of Being Earnest, Ten Women, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Vagina Monologues, Letters From Home, Tough as Nails, and The Jungle Book. Past performance art work includes, Strings Attached and Chimera. Past short film work includes Broken Hearts, Thank You For Calling, My Sweetest Downfall, and Aim For the Heart: A Guide to Vampire Defense. .
Welcome Tyne!
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